Brass/history

Famous quotes containing the words brass and/or history:

“Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)